Determinants of industrial mail survey response: A survey‐on‐surveys analysis of researchers' and managers' views

This paper compares the perceptions of marketing research executives and industrial respondents regarding factors impacting on industrial mail survey response. Following a review of the different research traditions to the study of mail response rates, a “survey‐on‐surveys “ approach is introduced and used to study the potential impacts of different design and implementation factors on survey response. The results of the study provide empirical evidence on the perceived influence of a wide variety of response‐inducing factors in industrial mail surveys, and are used to generate managerial recommendations for the conduct of the latter. Directions for future research are also identified.     

Global Warming and German Agriculture Impact Estimations Using a Restricted Profit Function

This study uses the concept of shadow prices formeasuring the impacts of climate change. By estimatinga restricted profit function rather than a cost or aproduction function the explanatory power of the modelis increased because of an endogenous outputstructure. Using low aggregated panel data on WesternGerman farmers, the results imply that the agricultural production process is significantly influenced by climate conditions. Simulation results using a 2 ×CO₂ climate scenario show positive impactsfor all regions in Germany. Interestingly, the spatialdistribution of the gains is indicating no advantagefor those regions, which currently suffer frominsufficient temperature. Finally, the importance ofan endogenous output structure is confirmed by thefinding that the desired product mix will drasticallychange.     

基于传统文化的企业创新文化——以海尔创新文化为例

一、基于传统文化的企业创新文化创新成为大多数公司渴望拥有的特征。但是要创新,了解创新的过程是至关重要的。早期对创新过程的研究强调了研发对产生创意的必要性。(Griliches(1998),Mansfield(1984),Rosenberg(1972))。公司的研发支出与创新之间存在一定的关系,然而这种关系     

区域主导与非主导产业协同竞争演化均衡分析

主导产业是区域经济发展的核心，它是区域经济发展的决定性力量。主导产业的发展与更换过程，是区域经济系统内各个产业之间协同竞争作用的结果。因此分析区域主导产业与非主导产业的协同竞争行为所遵循的规律对区域经济发展而言具有重要的理论与现实意义。基于区域产业间协同竞争行为与生物种群之间协同竞争行为机理的相似性，本文运用演化博弈论建立演化博弈模型，对区域主导与非主导产业的演化机制进行分析。     

科技创新“浪潮”之魂

领跑中国PC 1982年，“浪潮”对中国、国际两个市场进行了深刻分析和论证，敏锐洞察到“信息时代”的来临和其中蕴藏的巨大发展机遇。于是果断做出“涉足信息产业，开发和生产微型计算机，抢先在中国占领一席之地”的战略决策。当时，“浪潮人”毅然将上面拨的10万元指定做收录机研发的“救命钱”全数“悄悄”投入微型计算机的研发，从而揭开了“浪潮”以技术创新走向辉煌的序幕。     

中国因素对近年来日本产业空洞化的影响分析

近年来，有关产业空洞化问题的讨论在日本再次形成高潮，并与“中国因素”联系在一起。而分析日本对外直接投资的增长与日本进出口和就业的关系得知，“中国因素”不仅不是日本产业空洞化的祸首，反而是新一轮景气回升的重要动力．中国因素加快了日本逆工业化进程，尽管使日本制造业失业人数增加，但导致日本产业空洞化的真正原因是服务业过多的规制和劳动力市场缺乏弹性，使逆工业化过程中制造业释放出的失业人员不能向服务业进行有效转移。     

美国企业与慈善结缘

11月28日出版的《商业周刊》评出了2005年度美国50名最大的慈善家，也对致力于慈善事业的美国公司进行了评选。这些慈善家和企业的捐赠活动既造福于社会，也对企业的经营和发展起到了促进作用。     

我国农村信用社面临的挑战及对策选择

本文首先分析了目前我国的农村信用社所面临的各方面的挑战：一是农村信用社在国内银行中所面临的挑战，二是外资银行的进入对农村信用社带来的挑战，三是农村信用社自身存在的问题也给农村信用社的发展带来了一定的困难。在此基础上提出了一些对策选择。     

Targeting public services through the unequal treatment of unequals

When private goods are publicly provided, government authorities have to determine the distribution of in-kind benefits to recipients. In this paper, the public service provider is assumed to maximize utility defined over public service supply to different target groups, given a budget constraint. The production technology is target-group-specific and depends on the ability of each target group to produce service outcomes. Three benchmark allocation principles are identified: equality of treatment (ET), equality of outcome (EO), and equality of marginal cost (EMC). These principles can be considered to be consistent with special cases of a public preference model, which allows for compromises between different allocation principles. The condition of technological dominance implies that there is a clear-cut equity–productivity trade-off, whereas violations of this condition may reduce the significance of the trade-off.